what they're proposing is "to take a giant philosophical step back and see if a new and more promising direction can be found.
OK, good advice, now do it. If you think there is some massive new physics to be discovered, then discover it. When you do, you will be admired and respected for generations, instead of mocked by me on Slashdot.
The way I look at it, anarchy requires that people take a certain amount of self-responsibility, and to have a developed moral sense.
The reason the US is so bad because people don't pay attention. When politicians are bribed, they don't get voted out of office. No system of government will make up for the failings of people to pay attention.
However, once people do awaken, and start paying attention, then the US constitutional system provides the framework for a transition to that system of government. Politicians won't need to run expensive campaigns, for example, they will just put up a website to present their ideas and voters can go to check them out. Campaign donations only matter because we are lazy.
A significant number of them are pretty useless INSIDE their chosen profession, too
That's depressing.
You wouldn't be getting Richard Feynman advising you about physics. You'd be getting that sociology professor who blathered their way to a doctorate setting everyone's social policy, with no way of stopping them.
Yeah, because Feynman would only get involved in politics out of a sense of public duty. If he had his preference, he'd rather be doing physics.
I'll be honest, I'd rather have society based on any of the holy books I've read (which isn't all of them) instead of "maximize economic output." That's guaranteed misery.
How you define happiness makes a really big difference there. You still run into the same questions (Do you want "most lives saved?" Do you want "greatest economic output?" Do you want "Least tax burden?") but now you have to define them in terms of happiness instead.
There's no way to implement it properly, because so much of politics is just preferences. When it gets crowded, would you rather build more public transportation or more roads? There's no right answer....there are advantages and disadvantages to each, and we can talk about which advantages we prefer, but at the end it's a preference.
Should we put more money into NASA, or use it in the National Endowment for the Arts? Again, no right answer, just preferences.
This is why the gun control argument is so intractable. To some people, the collateral damage of deaths are worth it. To others, it's not worth it.
Sun gave away Java to be used for free by anyone, and Oracle (as inheritors of the copyright) raised objections when it was being used later in time. Not only that, but they wanted to be paid retroactively for its use during the time Sun was allowing everyone to use it for free.
This is misunderstanding the situation.....Sun gave away Java for zero dollars, but it wasn't unencumbered: you had to follow one of the many licenses. Google could have chosen the GPL, and they wouldn't have had a problem. In fact, recently they did switch to the GPL.
And Google's argument is that the API definition (function signatures) constitute public knowledge (the phone number, if you will, for the functionality).
I don't think they ever made that argument, actually; at least, I don't remember seeing it anywhere.
The pope approved the inquisition. He might as well be a Bond villain. Even has the ridiculous plan: "Sell indulgences to pay for and build a huge headquarters in the middle of Rome with a giant dome"
Oracle's one redeeming quality seems to be their honesty. I've wondered if I asked an Oracle salesman, "You're going to screw me over, aren't you?" if they would answer yes.
I've never wanted to stay in a conversation with an Oracle salesman long enough to ask that.
It's been pretty clear since around February that this would make its way back to the appellate court. I don't think the judge took the case particularly clearly (as soon as it was over, he said, "Yeah, I know you're going to appeal"), although he did make a fairly strong argument that may have some influence on the appellate court.
There are major perceived racial issues and conflicts at hand, and you want to focus on the specific equipment at hand?
This is a tech website, not a "racial issues and conflicts" website. It's good to have a tech angle to a story, otherwise Slashdot just turns into another blog that posts headlines.
Whitelisting doesn't help when adding a whitelist creates an exploitable remote vulnerability that doesn't require user interaction, like Symantec and TrendMicro
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Why Nancy Pelosi? It's not her decision what gets a vote in the house, it's Paul Ryan.
ok, that's a really good post, and should be copied in and pasted to replace the article.
what they're proposing is "to take a giant philosophical step back and see if a new and more promising direction can be found.
OK, good advice, now do it. If you think there is some massive new physics to be discovered, then discover it. When you do, you will be admired and respected for generations, instead of mocked by me on Slashdot.
The hostess pies are now half-filled with air, too. They used to have fruit filling from the bottom to the top.
The way I look at it, anarchy requires that people take a certain amount of self-responsibility, and to have a developed moral sense.
The reason the US is so bad because people don't pay attention. When politicians are bribed, they don't get voted out of office. No system of government will make up for the failings of people to pay attention.
However, once people do awaken, and start paying attention, then the US constitutional system provides the framework for a transition to that system of government. Politicians won't need to run expensive campaigns, for example, they will just put up a website to present their ideas and voters can go to check them out. Campaign donations only matter because we are lazy.
and you need to do it in less than 6 lines of code.
Is that possible?
The mathematical sections tend to be better, well defined, well commented, and well-written code.
You probably don't watch cable news. If you did, you would be sick of hearing from experts, too.
A significant number of them are pretty useless INSIDE their chosen profession, too
That's depressing.
You wouldn't be getting Richard Feynman advising you about physics. You'd be getting that sociology professor who blathered their way to a doctorate setting everyone's social policy, with no way of stopping them.
Yeah, because Feynman would only get involved in politics out of a sense of public duty. If he had his preference, he'd rather be doing physics.
I'll be honest, I'd rather have society based on any of the holy books I've read (which isn't all of them) instead of "maximize economic output." That's guaranteed misery.
How you define happiness makes a really big difference there. You still run into the same questions (Do you want "most lives saved?" Do you want "greatest economic output?" Do you want "Least tax burden?") but now you have to define them in terms of happiness instead.
It's kind of unclear what a "virtual country" is.
You missed the alternate......."let people do what they want." Stop trying to dictate what people do.
that's pretty clearly stated. Give a couple examples, and it would be a perfect post.
There's no way to implement it properly, because so much of politics is just preferences. When it gets crowded, would you rather build more public transportation or more roads? There's no right answer....there are advantages and disadvantages to each, and we can talk about which advantages we prefer, but at the end it's a preference.
Should we put more money into NASA, or use it in the National Endowment for the Arts? Again, no right answer, just preferences.
This is why the gun control argument is so intractable. To some people, the collateral damage of deaths are worth it. To others, it's not worth it.
wow, that's a great explanation.
Sun gave away Java to be used for free by anyone, and Oracle (as inheritors of the copyright) raised objections when it was being used later in time. Not only that, but they wanted to be paid retroactively for its use during the time Sun was allowing everyone to use it for free.
This is misunderstanding the situation.....Sun gave away Java for zero dollars, but it wasn't unencumbered: you had to follow one of the many licenses. Google could have chosen the GPL, and they wouldn't have had a problem. In fact, recently they did switch to the GPL.
And Google's argument is that the API definition (function signatures) constitute public knowledge (the phone number, if you will, for the functionality).
I don't think they ever made that argument, actually; at least, I don't remember seeing it anywhere.
The pope approved the inquisition. He might as well be a Bond villain. Even has the ridiculous plan: "Sell indulgences to pay for and build a huge headquarters in the middle of Rome with a giant dome"
No, he understood it clearly enough and decided not to flip copyright to make API's copyrightable
I'm not sure what you are saying here, the sentence isn't very clear.
Sun still held "title" to Java, I suppose, but they did little to nothing to "protect" their copyright.
you don't need to protect a copyright, you're getting confused with trademark, which does need to be defended to some degree.
Does that scenario make ANY sense to you? I sure as hell hope not.
It really didn't!
Oracle's one redeeming quality seems to be their honesty. I've wondered if I asked an Oracle salesman, "You're going to screw me over, aren't you?" if they would answer yes.
I've never wanted to stay in a conversation with an Oracle salesman long enough to ask that.
It's been pretty clear since around February that this would make its way back to the appellate court. I don't think the judge took the case particularly clearly (as soon as it was over, he said, "Yeah, I know you're going to appeal"), although he did make a fairly strong argument that may have some influence on the appellate court.
There are major perceived racial issues and conflicts at hand, and you want to focus on the specific equipment at hand?
This is a tech website, not a "racial issues and conflicts" website. It's good to have a tech angle to a story, otherwise Slashdot just turns into another blog that posts headlines.
Whitelisting doesn't help when adding a whitelist creates an exploitable remote vulnerability that doesn't require user interaction, like Symantec and TrendMicro